Patch 7.2 Catch-Up Tips for Returning 110s and Alts

If you're returning to WoW after a break, it may feel overwhelming with all the rapid-fire patches and new developments. However Patch 7.2 has made some parts of the game easier to catch-up on, so we've rounded up frequently asked questions for alts!\r\r\r\rHow do I get Artifact Knowledge Quickly?\rIn Patch 7.2, players can reach Artifact Knowledge 26 very quickly - in one day if they have enough Order Resources.\rGo from 1-25 with the repeatable quest Conhecimento é poder. Each quest turn-in per Knowledge level is 0 Recursos da Ordem. If you started playing at Legion's launch and took a break, you probably have a lot of Recursos da Ordem saved up. You will need 12500 Resources total to go from 1-25 instantly this way.\rIf you already have a well-progressed main character with Artifact Knowledge 25, purchase Compêndio de Pesquisa de Artefato: Volumes I-IV in your Order Hall for 0 Recursos da Ordem and send it to your alt. They can then use the book to reach AK 20 instantly. Then complete 5 Conhecimento é poder to reach AK 25.\rPlayers at Artifact Knowledge 25 complete a short quest to unlock the ability to progress to Artifact Knowledge 50:\rEm busca do conhecimento perdido: Use Tomo Élfico Encantado at several places on the Broken Shore, after completing Ataque à Costa Partida. Completing this quest series rewards AK level 26, and lets you keep placing orders up to AK 50. You need to use the Tomo Élfico Potencializado in your bag to reach AK 26.\rSpeak to the Order Hall Researcher to learn Conhecimento Perdido Descoberto.\rThis is important to start because it's a huge gain! AK 25 is 25,000% and AK 26 is 100000%\r\rWhat are quick ways to gain Artifact Power?\rOnce you reach Artifact Knowledge 26, you'll be getting massive amounts of Artifact Power per activity. For example, one World Quest will award ~200k Artifact Power, which would take a fresh artifact to Trait 22.\rComplete any remaining story quests, as they reward higher-than-average Artifact Power. The Suramar Storyline has many high Artifact Power rewards. For example, just doing the opening "Nightfall" questline will reward a million Artifact Power at Artifact Knowledge 26.\rComplete World Quests for Artifact Power, especially rare quests. You will probably be focusing World Quests anyway for Desbravador das Ilhas Partidas, parte um. When you complete four quests for an Emissary, you get an additional Artifact Power token (example Tomo de Pesquisa de Nar'thalas) which awards 400,000 AP at AK 26.\rLoot treasures in questing zones. With high Artifact Knowledge, a few of the treasure AP items could get you a new trait.\rIf you are interested in PvP but haven't prestiged much, consider working towards Rank 1 Prestige. In Patch 7.2, the Honor needed to hit Rank 1 has been cut in half, and reaching many of the ranks rewards an Artifact Power token.\rWhile group activities like dungeons and raid bosses also award a high amount of Artifact Power, we've focused on solo sources in case you feel inexperienced and want more familiarity with your character before playing with others!\r\rHow do I improve my Artifact?\rReaching 35 Artifact Traits is very easy due to the combination of Artifact Knowledge and Artifact Power improvements described above. Once you reach Artifact Knowledge 26 and queue up for Artifact Knowledge 27, Khadgar has a new quest for you: Costa Partida: Investigando a Legião. This will lead to a short story-driven quest to empower your weapon and open up a new set of Empowered Traits.\rThe cost of traits 36 and 37 should be easy to reach with huge Artifact Knowledge gains. These provide significant damage and stamina increases and are worth picking up. The cost of future traits will be quite steeper but still worth progressing towards.\rAcquiring the third artifact relic is easier in Patch 7.2. If you started playing at Legion's launch, chances are you have already made some progress on this questline, but put it aside. Here are some improvements for the original campaign:\rAll class campaign missions are now 1 hour.\rAll class quests that required 20 World Quests now require 10.\r\r\rHow do I gear up quickly?\rDo Legion Assaults; you will get a piece of gear from the final boss as well as a Dauntless token. This can be turned into ilvl 850 loot.\rIn addition, Legion Assaults are great sources of Nethershards, which are used to purchase more Dauntless Tokens on the Broken Shore.\rBefore you start spending Nethershards on Dauntless Tokens, run a few random heroics or battlegrounds - you have a decent chance to get gear in the ilvl 840-860 range.\rOnce you've amassed some gear from naturally playing, spend Nethershards on Dauntless Token slots which are still weak.\rAs your gear gets better, so will the gear rewards from World Quests. Also keep in mind that these World Quests can proc Warforged\/Titanforged.\rIf you are missing a relic, consider completing Catedral da Noite Eterna: Altar da Égide from Cathedral of Eternal Night for an ilvl 860+ relic.\rAs you continue to amass Nethershards, spend them on 5k Relinquished tokens instead from the Broken Shore. This will create an ilvl 880+ piece of loot - either a piece with randomized stats, or a particular item from a boss.\rMake sure to acquire Selo do Destino Interrompido and use them on World bosses. They of course work on Dungeon and Raid bosses, but if you feel comfortable enough to do this group content, you are probably beyond the scope of this guide!\r\rWhat activities should I focus on at 110?\rWhile it's important to always play what is fun (and with friends!), here are some tips as to content to try out:\r\rBroken Shore - Collecting Suprimentos de Guerra da Queda da Legião for building turn-ins provides Armies of Legionfall Reputation and a Recompensa da Queda da Legião which can contain Nethershards, Order Resources, and even a legendary! To get Suprimentos de Guerra da Queda da Legião, you'll be completing a lot of World Quests on the Broken Shore. Make sure to take advantage of the building buffs - the World Bosses that spawn with the Nether Disruptor are useful for alts, as well as several Mage Tower buffs that offer Artifact Power or Reputation boosts.\rPathfinder - Desbravador das Ilhas Partidas - Parte Dois unlocks flying in Patch 7.2. Check out our Flying Tool and Guide to see what you have left!\rHeroic dungeons - they now drop ilvl 845 loot and you can queue up for The Arcway, Court of Stars, Lower Karazhan, and Upper Karazhan without needing to do attunement quests.\rLegion Assaults - Great for Nethershards, reputation, gear, and even special transmog weapons. Learn more in the Legion Assault Guide.\rSeason 3 PvP - The new PvP season just started so now is a great time to get into PvP. The Season 3 Gladiator gear is a recolor of Tier 20 Armor from Tomb of Sargeras, which in turn is a high-definition version of iconic Tier 6 from Black Temple. You can ease into PvP with new brawls like Bacia Arathi, or simply do PvP World Quests when they are up. If you're only interested in PvP for the Prestige Rewards, many PvP World Quests do not require you to kill players - and do reward Combatant or Gladiator gear.\r\rThere are many more things to do in the patch, detailed in our Patch 7.2 Survival Guide. If you're looking for things to collect, try the Equilíbrio de poder questline for a new artifact appearance, the puzzles for the Hidden Artifact Appearances, the battle pet achievement Família dos Familiares, the transmog set achievement Top Model, and the A revolta questline for the Manassabre do Arcanista.

Comentários

Comentado por SilverDragon234

Comentado por aznballer735

on 2017-04-15T17:10:00-05:00

just starting 110 dh\r\rneed to get all my followers & etc

Comentado por Raz3or

on 2017-04-15T17:14:39-05:00

Acquiring the third artifact relic is easier in Patch 7.2. If you started playing at Legion's launch, chances are you have already made some progress on this questline, but put it aside. Here are some improvements in 7.0:\r\rShouldn't this be 7.2? ;)

Comentado por perculia

on 2017-04-15T18:03:46-05:00

Acquiring the third artifact relic is easier in Patch 7.2. If you started playing at Legion's launch, chances are you have already made some progress on this questline, but put it aside. Here are some improvements in 7.0:\r\rShouldn't this be 7.2? ;)\r\rYep, meant to say here are some patch improvements for the 7.0 part of the chain.

Comentado por Tredain

on 2017-04-15T18:44:34-05:00

You need to use the Empowered Elven Tome in your bag to reach AK 26.\r\r I've had some odd experiences with this actually. On some characters, it goes into my bags and I have to use it. Others, however, it seems to be automatically used. Drove me nuts the very first time I got the quest done, as I thought it was a physical item (and it is!) but somehow it was used automatically, as it wasn't anywhere in my bags but my AK level was 26. So, if you finish the quest and it isn't in your bags, check your AK level, it may have already been 'used'

Comentado por tyr2009

on 2017-04-15T18:44:49-05:00

Good guide, I'll be using it for catching up my benched alts. \r\rEven with the quick catch-up to Ar25\/26 with pushover, doing the way they did the weapons made this xpac extremely alt-unfriendly. Not sure why it took almost 8 months to get it moving to the point I can unbench several of my alts. In Pandaria and Draenor I could LFR my alts with every wing release and have no issues continuing their gear progression... but this xpac blew.

Comentado por leowow

on 2017-04-15T19:20:15-05:00

Please on the next wow expansion remove the Artifacts.

Comentado por aznballer735

on 2017-04-15T19:44:35-05:00

Please on the next wow expansion remove the Artifacts.\r\rits built too much into legion to be removed\r\rbut they could have AK like they have it for 1-25\r\rinstant repeatable quest as long as u farm the resources

Comentado por Alecino

on 2017-04-15T20:54:03-05:00

Please on the next wow expansion remove the Artifacts.\r\rits built too much into legion to be removed\r\rbut they could have AK like they have it for 1-25\r\rinstant repeatable quest as long as u farm the resources\r\rThey will most likely keep it, but everything will get a gear squish again, so nothing over 1000ilvl.

Comentado por dilvesh

on 2017-04-16T06:56:32-05:00

If I remember right they said they are removing artifacts in next expansion.

Comentado por sigprof

on 2017-04-16T07:11:32-05:00

All class campaign missions are now 1 hour.\rActually some of them can take 2 hours, because in some cases enemies have the Desacelerando ability, and especially at the earliest missions you may not have a champion to counter that enemy.

Comentado por lankybrit

on 2017-04-16T08:13:47-05:00

Good stuff wowhead. Just what we need for those not paying much attention to 7.2.

Comentado por Sarthorius

on 2017-04-16T08:42:35-05:00

You forgot to mention about the Class Halls, mostly. Like, while doing any WQ, on the Broken Shore, Legion Invasions , or others, it is important that the character chooses his all-time bodyguard champion, and put the Order Resource\/Gold equipment. They'll end up with more resource they can handle and spare the main character of using them, or even by playing with one with those equips on the main, you can progress thru the AK up to 50 with him, then with the Big extra Order resources you can buy 1-12 of the compendiums, costing a total of 1-12k order resources, and giving your alts a huge catch-up system, they will instantly get AK45, spering them from using their own (and scarse) resources for other things, like their own order halls research (lvl 7 and 8, for 25k total, each, for example). \r\rBlizz has many tools to improve Alts playing in Legion, just people not using them properly it seems, then come in forums whine at Legion not being alt friendly haha.\r\rAlso, there are some champions like Meatball, that any class can have in their class hall, and has huge bonus to eitheir mission farming, or bodyguard role, and he's easy to get, since you can now get enough ilvl in 7.2 to at least beat the first boss of the brawler's guild with ease (or repeat him for some of the class hall missions that spawn on his questline).

Comentado por Solanthious

on 2017-04-16T18:34:09-05:00

Also, take advantage of the Invasions. You might be able to only do the first 6 WQ's that are up, but, depending on what you end up getting, xp or artifact power, it will drastically speed up leveling for your alt. I leveled a 100 Mage to 110, on 7 invasions and 1 dungeon at the end because I didn't want to wait a day, and also ended up with 10 points into my Artifact. Happy Alt'ing.

Comentado por Pandafera

on 2017-04-17T10:14:11-05:00

If you want to up an 100 alt, and you unlocked the fly, I suggest to focus on the lore quests. Do only the primary chain quests, forget the secondary ones.

Comentado por mstieler

on 2017-04-24T00:12:06-05:00

You can likey update the "If you already have a well-progressed main character with Artifact Knowledge 25, purchase Artifact Research Compendium: Volumes I-IV in your Order Hall for 1000 and send it to your alt. They can then use the book to reach AK 20 instantly. Then complete 5 Knowledge is Power to reach AK 25." bit, as it progresses upwards, likely through AK 50 (on my AK 31 Main, I was able to buy "Artifact Research Compendium: Volumes I-V" which gave my fresh 110 AK 25.